Sunday, February 11, 2018

Icee Love

While sorting through some cards recently, I came across a few that I thought might be of interest to the patron saint of bloggers, aka Mark Hoyle. Since three of the four cards featured Ted Williams, I figured it would a good idea to check and see if Mark already had them or not, because as I'm sure everyone already knows by now, Mark has a pretty healthy Ted Williams collection.

After firing off a quick missive via the direct messaging on Twitter (@Markhoyle4), I found out that Mark did want them, and even though I wasn't looking for anything in return, Mark asked if I would be interested in a spare 1972-73 Icee Bear Bob Love that he had. Since I only have a couple of Icee Bear's, and with Bob not being among those couple, I was definitely interested.

This is a set that I fully intend to collect all of at some point, probably after I complete a few more of the 70's Topps basketball sets. I hadn't paid much attention to the photo selection of the three or four that I already have, but for some reason, this card made me wonder about that very thing.

After doing a small (like ten minutes worth) amount of research, I have found that four out of the twenty photos used for the set are the same ones used in the 1971-72 Topps set. At least six, although different, look like they may have been taken at the same time as the images for the 1972-73 Topps set were shot (Bob being one of those). And the last ten, well... those are going to require a bit more research, preferably being done by someone else :)

Mark, thank you for the card, I very much appreciate you helping me knock a card off of a non-existent checklist for what will be a future set build.


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13 comments:

  1. Well that's three of us looking to finish this one. Greg (Plaschke Thy Sweater is Argyle) you and me.

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    1. I didn't know you were interested in this one too! I think Mark's working on it as well. I've read Greg's posts, but for some reason, Blogger won't let me leave comments on his blog.

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    2. Damn Blogger and it's ridiculous commenting habits! The Icee set is truly fantastic....good luck to us all in completing it!

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    3. I hadn't thought of it before, but I might be able to comment on your blog if use a different browser, I'll have to give it a try.

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  2. It's four actually, although I have only one so I'm a good way away.

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    1. I knew that, sorry for leaving you out Billy :(

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  3. I'm actually not working on this set. I'll leave it to you guys. I have my Hondo from the set. That's good for now.

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  4. Beautiful card. I actually think the back is cooler than the front. Icee Bear spinning a basketball while drinking an Icee? That sweet!

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    1. The backs are nice, for the bear, and because of the surprising amount of player info that they provide.

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  5. Nice card! Good luck to those of you building that very cool set.

    I didn't know anything about Bob Love, until a sports trivia episode of Married..With Children where Kelly correctly identifies him as the Bulls' leading scorer...in the '60's.

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    1. Is that the episode where Kelly has had so much information crammed into her brain that it started pushing other stuff out... namely, the answer to the question about Al at the end?

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